2016 European GP: Reject of the Race
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2016 European GP: Reject of the Race
To try and help collecting the results easier, I plan to use a form (see below) to collect the answers and collate them. Of course, you're welcome to (and encouraged to) still post your choices and reasoning in the thread, but the only votes that will be counted are the ones submitted in the form below.
Same rules apply - first choice gets 10pts, second choice gets 6pts. Get voting for ROTR!
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2. Hulkenburg's Strategy - Why does he always get the duff strategies when Perez always gets the good ones?
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2nd - Red Bull: More and more convinced they signed Williams' strategy chiefs from 2014.

Honourable Mentions:
GP2 Drivers - For making me all hyped up for this race.
Lewis Hamilton - Bitch. Moan. Complain. As always.
Toro Rosso - Yeah, that was bad.
Mario on Gutierrez after the Italian Grand Prix wrote:He's no longer just a bit of a tool, he's the entire tool set.
18-07-2015: Forever in our hearts Jules.
25-08-2015: Forever in our hearts Justin.
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6. Nico Hulkenerg - Out paced, out played by Perez. Just looked out of his depth this whole weekend in comparison.
Not nominating Lewis because Kimi did the same just not heard as frequently.
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Biscione wrote:Usually you'd know the drill, but...things are slightly different this time.
To try and help collecting the results easier, I plan to use a form (see below) to collect the answers and collate them.
What sorcery is this?

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2. The date and schedule - Same day as Le Mans, qualifying clashing with the start of Le Mans, and race start at the same moment as the Le Mans finish.
pasta_maldonado wrote:The stewards have recommended that Alan Jones learns to drive.
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1. Toro Rosso - in a race where attrition proved to be far lower than expected, they were the only ones who suffered from a double retirement and blew a chance for a few points. They've said that they expect to only fall back further and further as the season goes on and therefore cannot afford to waste potential points scoring opportunities, but they seem to have done just that today.
2. Radio transmission restrictions - this might perhaps see me going against the crowd, but I really dislike the fact that the teams cannot tell the drivers about some of the issues with the cars. When we had Raikkonen and Hamilton begging for information, only to be told that the team couldn't tell them anything, who does that benefit?
It's not the drivers or the teams who benefit, since it just makes things more frustrating for them. It does not seem to benefit the fans either, since now we have had several instances of a driver effectively being taken out of potential competition because they could not reset something and then drive to the maximum performance of their car, making the races, if anything, less interesting for the fans.
It's something that I've not liked from the start - other racing series, such as the WEC, have no qualms with that sort of radio traffic from pit wall to car, and indeed some, such as Audi, champion it as their way of being at the cutting edge of racing. By contrast, here the sport is being yoked by reactionary fans that pine for a false nostalgia.
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Ten points: Toro Rosso, in the absence of any better candidates. When 20 cars were left in the race, they were already packing up and going home to Faenza.
Six points: Eddie Jordan. I would just like to say if I may, Daniel Ricciardo will win this race, and... what was Pérez doing in the practice session, he's completely blown his chance of a posium there.
Dishonourable mention: The ACO for organising Le Mans on the same weekend as a Grand Prix, thus depriving Nico Hülkenberg a chance to defend his win...
Dishonourable mention 2: Sky's commentators - who I can't hear, but I suspect they were saying "No! It's not fair! Change the rules so the team can tell Saint Lewis what to change on his car because that *bleep* Pérez shouldn't be on the podium, it should be Lewis! Lewis! Lewis! Hallelujah, his name be praised!" Or, at least, that's what I imagine given all the complaints given about their commentary and presentation from those who send £500+ a year to Rupert Murdoch.
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Biscione wrote:A quick reminder that if the username submitted in the form doesn't match your forum handle, your votes will not be counted. There a couple of names in there so far that aren't forum members.
My autocorrect was refusing to let my write andrew without the capital letter, will my submittion be fine?
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andrew wrote:Biscione wrote:A quick reminder that if the username submitted in the form doesn't match your forum handle, your votes will not be counted. There a couple of names in there so far that aren't forum members.
My autocorrect was refusing to let my write andrew without the capital letter, will my submittion be fine?
Yes, I'm not a total jobsworth! I'm not expecting people to be completely precise where it isn't possible, I'm talking about instances where the username bears not even a passing resemblance to anything on the member list.
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1. Scuderia Toro Rosso - When a race has little attrition, a double-DNF is always a surefire way to get Reject of the Race when no one else does anything really stupid.
2. Stoffel Vandoorne's chair - On the RTBF commentary feed, co-commentator Stoffel Vandoorne had a reputation-threatening incident when his chair broke underneath him on live TV, prompting a solid 3 minutes of him and Gaëtan Vigneron frantically attempting to find a new one, including desperately throwing in an ad break.
"I've never seen this many screws on the floor..."
"We're back from the ad break, and we still don't have a new chair."
"Stoffel, why don't you take my chair, and I'll sit on this cardboard box?"
Dishonourable mentions:
Lewis Hamilton - Driving this car is your job. You really should know how it works.
The people in charge of setting the DRS zones - Far too long, and in need of a second detection zone before the second one.
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Torro rosso. Double retirement, not good I'm afraid
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2 - Toro Rosso: Double retirement. Kvyat lost a potential points finish.
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1. The 'win,win' nature of the DRS, it's there to help you pass a car and not subsequently disappear into the distance.
2. Radio comms/coded messages:
'Is it button A?'
'I can't say'
'Is it button B?'
'I can't say'
'Is it button C?'
'I'm not allowed to tell you that (wink, wink)'
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Now, Rejects of the race from me:
1. Jolyon Palmer - is he even relevant to Formula 1?
2. The track layout - I personally don't believe it can produce great races. Everything else was nice though
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My second pick, for a lack of choices, goes to Lewis Hamilton. When Nico Rosberg had problems with the car, at least he didn't go full-on Austin [insert joke about Richard Childress gifting him a ride] Dillon at his crew, bitching and moaning the entire way. Nico just kept his head down and drove, calmly asking for advice when needed. Lewis on the other hand, while I do understand that the radio rules are a bit stupid, just unloads all the salt on the crew. While Lewis wasn't exactly at Dillon-levels of annoying, that was still pretty stupid of him to go off like that. I thought you knew your car better than that, Lewis.
Another one that deserved mention are Nico Hulkenberg, for getting totally outpaced by Perez, again. The Restricted Radio Rules also get a mention. Even though I gave Hamilton schtick for his radio antics, they aren't completely unjustified. The FIA/FOM/whoever made the damn rules should probably have a rethink on what should/shouldn't be allowed, because this current set of rules doesn't really benefit fans, drivers or crews for reasons stated by others.
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solarcold wrote:Biscione, from your profile pic I make a conclusion you're supporting the Icelandic football team this Euro? High five! We're gonna destroy Austria! (I'm personally a geek of Iceland and surrounding areas, though I equally support my own nation's team)
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